Yani Tseng won the 2008 McDonald’s LPGA Championship. Tseng dropped a 7-foot birdie putt on the fourth extra hole to edge Maria Hjorth. Both players finished 72 holes of regulation at 12-under-par 276 after Tseng closed with a 68 and Hjorth a 71.

Lorena Ochoa and Annika Sorenstam both shot 71s to share third place at 11-under par 277. Laura Diaz closed with a 70 to finish alone in fifth place at 10-under-par 278 while Morgan Pressel while Shi Hyun Ahn, Kelli Kuehne, Irene Cho and Seon Hwa Lee were all at 280. At 19 years and four months, Tseng is the youngest player to win the LPGA Championship and the second youngest player to win an LPGA major championship. Morgan Pressel was 18 years and 10 months when she won the Kraft Nabisco Championship in 2006.

“I’m so excited,” Tseng said. “I can’t believe I just won a major. I’m a rookie and everything comes so fast.” Tseng started the final round four shots behind Jee Young Lee the 54-hole leader, but converted four birdie chances going out to move into contention. Hjorth, playing in the final group just behind Tseng, started her day just one shot off the pace, but grabbed a share of the lead with a birdie at the fourth hole and after a birdie at the 10th had the lead at 13-under par. She fell off the pace at the par-4 13th when she lost her tee ball in fescue to the left, but birdied the par-5 15th when her second shot hit a rock in a hazard and bounded onto the green, setting up a two-putt birdie. She chipped in for birdie at 16 but bogeyed 17 to fall into a tie for the lead with Tseng, who had bogeyed the 13th but birdied 14 to get back to 12 under par.

Sorenstam, whose putter failed her most of the afternoon, had a chance to tie for the lead at the 72nd hole but missed a 20-foot birdie try from the fringe. Ochoa fell off the pace with back-to-back bogeys at 12 and 13. She birdied two of the last three holes but came up one shot short in her bid for a third consecutive major championship.
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